Monday, March 4, 2013

mawkish

mawkish (comparative more mawkish, superlative most mawkish)

  1. (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.
  2. (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
  3. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
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